One of the commendable and often overlooked facts about the youth of 1976 and the Young Lions generation of the 1980s is that they did not wait for a Messiah to emerge from somewhere to free them from the yoke of apartheid. While advocating and pushing for the release of Nelson Mandela and his jailed comrades, the youth took up the spear of freedom on their own, waking the elders from a slumber that had, since the mid-1960s, after Mandela and his comrades were sentenced to life imprisonment, th...